***Official England in India***

[pskov]

Just woke up. Ouch.


400 in sight for India?

 

[Richard]

No, the RR was still going strong. And Tendulkar was out the next ball he called for runner.

It was still going strong because it'd been so good for such a fair while. But they lost momentum, and chasing such a huge total they could ill afford to.

Tendulkar should have retired the moment the injury begun to bother him. In a run-chase like that, there is no time for dalliance.

 

[Precambrian]

Strange Kamikaze attack here!!

 

[Richard]

Just woke up. Ouch.


400 in sight for India?

Can't imagine it'll be quite that many, but certainly should get 350+.

Raina gone. Enter Dhoni?

 

[neutralguy]

raina gone.

 

[neutralguy]

yusuf pathan in.

 

[Precambrian]

It was still going strong because it'd been so good for such a fair while. But they lost momentum, and chasing such a huge total they could ill afford to.

Tendulkar should have retired the moment the injury begun to bother him. In a run-chase like that, there is no time for dalliance.

Agree with that, because for his personal sake. Can't say he got the momentum derailed.

Raina is gonnnnnner. Good catch from Colly. Was bound to happen with this strange no hold attack.

Yusuf Pathan in.

 

[Richard]

Not a good time to lose a wicket that. Don't imagine Flintoff will bowl any more overs this Powerplay so there's 2 overs of virtual free-hit bowling, which might not be taken advantage of as much now as with 2 established players.

Interested to see how this Yusuf lives-up to his big-hitting rep tho.

 

[neutralguy]

50 for yuvi...

 

[Precambrian]

Problem for England is they have just 2 overs of Fred, and the others are leaking runs.

Yuvi 50 with a superb off drive.

 

[Richard]

Decent effort at the best of times but pretty damn awesome with that injury.

That obvious slower-ball from Harmison bringing it up.

 

[Richard]

Well that was a shocking stroke. Would've been rather better to send Dhoni in at the fall of Raina.

 

[neutralguy]

Yusuf pathan batting poorly as usual.For some reason he is not able to translate his IPL form in international cricket.

 

[Precambrian]

Poor move that, Dhoni was ideal person to take charge with so many overs remaining. Should be the last time we;ll see Pathan.

 

[Precambrian]

Problem is Yuvi cannot play in the abandon manner now because they have only Rohit Sharma left. Piss poor move that from Dhoni :angry:

 

[Richard]

Haha, classic Dhoni.

 

[Richard]

Problem is Yuvi cannot play in the abandon manner now because they have only Rohit Sharma left. Piss poor move that from Dhoni :angry:

Yeah they don't want to be losing more than 1 wicket in the next 10 overs now really.

Harbhajan and Zaheer ideally don't want to be batting at all, but if they do you don't want either coming to the crease with more than a couple of overs left.

 

[neutralguy]

India should be lucky to get 300 here.

 

[wpdavid]

Ugh. Given the form of our batters, a 200 run margin of defeat is a distinct possibility here, which takes a bit of doing in these games. Broad vs Yuvraj should be interesting.

Oh, and our decision to leave out our one specialist spinner looks about as smart as I feared yesterday.

 

[Richard]

INdis should be lucky to get 300 here.

You ARE kidding? 48 runs in 10 overs is child's play.